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An invasion of armies can be resisted,
by Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

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My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo

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To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

 

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq
was unnecessary and unjust.
And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
- Jimmy Carter

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
- Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe that banking establishments
are more dangerous than standing armies,
and that the principle of spending money
to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,
is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
- Thomas Jefferson

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho

Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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